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Jun 12 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I expected memes but received fear instead

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I do have to appreciate Kaowru eating pizza(?)with his son clone though Image
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I FOUND THE THREAD I SAVED SOME IN BUT NOT THE ORIGINAL IMAGES I WANTED NOW IM MAD

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Rainy Studios – Queer Studies of History & BL 📝 Profile picture
May 19
With fanpol going after independent creators (largely BIPOC & queer), always approach severe claims with caution. Ask for proof besides word-of-mouth 'someone said it so I just believed it.' Ask for context. If people can't bare minimum provide that, don't engage with rumors. -
So many marginalized creators are being stomped out because randos who hate them blow incidents out of proportion, or make straight-up lies about them, and then other ppl just accept it as fact without doing a grain of research. Don't make it easy for bigots to ruin creators. -
All it takes to continue those harmful cycles is someone going 'I have no idea what's going on what happened?' and then just taking whatever they're told at face value and continuing to spread it around to the next person who asks 'what did they do?' without even verifying it.
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Rainy Studios – Queer Studies of History & BL 📝 Profile picture
May 1
"cishet women fetishize mlm media"
u know a lot of those 'cishet' women are trans mlm & nblm
"No idiot I mean REAL cishet women not trans men!"
trans mlm & nblm who took until their 30s to figure their shit out bc of rhetoric like this keeping them closeted and in denial:
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Trans mlm & nblm making posts about how harmful gatekeeping queer media is and how important mlm media is to them and figuring out their identity-
Other trans ppl and trans allies:
"Look at this cishet fujo"
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You get people who come in like "Well we can acknowledge BOTH that cishet women fetishize AND it's important to trans men." And the only outcome I see time and time again is trans & nb mlm being misgendered or openly harassed OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again. Along with
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Rainy Studios – Queer Studies of History & BL 📝 Profile picture
Apr 30
I think a lot of fanpol don't realize creatives can have nuanced relationships w/fiction. My personal work comes from a place of self-indulgent escapism, but for work which I'm contributing to projects bigger than myself I focus on implementing as much representation as possible.
For many people it's not one or the other. Most of what fandom purists see OL are people's self-indulgent works, & not how those same people apply themselves when actually in a position to make positive change on large-scale projects.
When people create for themselves, especially escapism the goal isn't going to always be 'good representation'! Like that can certainly come with it, but I think a lot of people conflate the two things and then use that to decide "Is this person a good person for the cause?"
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Rainy Studios – Queer Studies of History & BL 📝 Profile picture
Apr 30
I think it could also be argued that people are like this specifically BECAUSE there really has never been any western escapist queer media on any significant scale. As a teen I would scrape for teen-oriented queer media but shojo/BL were the only places I found an actual market
Everything I found from western authors was general young adult novels possibly covering someone's first experience, the topic of AIDs, school bullying, etc. and I could only locate a handful. It was all very realism-based, and of course, there was no comic market whatsoever.
We have no mass escapist market with LGBTQ+ content in the west so when people see it in BL they FREAK out because they think it's going for realism & supposed to be understood as realism when historically people in Asia understood it wasn't. This also includes positive escapism!
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Apr 30
I think a large problem with 'think of the children!' discourse on social media like Twitter & (previously) Tumblr is people will say: 'the site says you can have an account if you're at least 13 years old!' Okay, but at the same time the site also allows p/ornography so - 🧵
Consider that maybe this is an issue of a site with adult content allowing a minimum age requirement of 13 to have an account, and not necessarily the adult content on the site with an adult majority being the problem. -
Instead of saying 'LET THE MINORS IN!' and policing random artists with "Children could see it!" and demanding said adult artists lock their accounts and if they don't they're "gr00mers", perhaps those kids shouldn't be on a site where p/orn is widely allowed in the first place.
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Apr 29
Ok, an interesting thing I noticed in the comments though is one thing a lot of DC/Marvel comic fans like is that you can pick which issues/artists/writers you like most to tailor superhero canon to your liking, which I realized feels a lot like the appeal of fanfiction 👀
canon fanfics???
Also be fair to manga, growing up it was the first stylistic/narrative comic medium that catered to women & glorified soft masculinity as well so I was like 'FUCK THIS WESTERN SHIT BYE'.

The sheer volume of adaptations and niche tier content pandering also is still unmatched
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